Q:
You will see I got the first level looking amazing.. this is exactly what I
wanted. The interesting thing I figured out was not to use the item border..
this was messing things up. You may notice that when each item highlights..
there is a 1px white line at the separators.. but this is not produced with
the item border, but rather from the separator itself which I made in two 1
pixel lines, one blue, on white.. this created that effect.

So now my only problem left is to figure out how to bring this look into the
submenus. I was thinking it would be nice to use the separators in the same
way throughout the submenus. There does not however seem to be a way to do
this. When I tried inserting a separator into a submenu.. nothing
happened... I am probably doing this wrong.

Can you please show me how to create the same look I have in the first level
in the submenus.. this would be helpful.

I must say, this menu is finally starting to look the way I originally
envisioned it. I am very happy. =o)